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| death2tyrants
Posted on 03/24/2005 6:05:23 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: death2tyrants
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:06:39 PM PST
by
SE Mom
(God Bless our troops.)
To: death2tyrants
FDR once sent a warship back to retrieve his dog, Fallah. And when questioned, he made light of it at the expense of the Republican that would dare question him.
IMHO, FDR was a demagogue of the first order. Words were just a tool to him.
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:11:43 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Dawgs off the coffee table.)
To: death2tyrants
In spite of what he may have said, FDR was a tyrannical nut. He was the most destructive president we've ever had.
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:21:06 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(If you eat mayonnaise on your hot dogs please don't talk to me.)
To: Jaysun
Concur. FDR had no regard for the Constitution and was the most blatant Class Warrior we've ever had as President. Although I do think LBJ gives him a run for the money as most destructive.
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:25:02 PM PST
by
speedy
To: Thebaddog
He was also a socialist of the first order. I was looking for a quote, I believe it was from Brezhnev about how "The New Deal" was a big step toward communism. I found these instead.
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." gun control? democrats?
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." Terri Schindler?
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party." democrats?
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
Clinton? Kennedy? Reid? Boxer?
How many are poignant concerning issues today? This is Joseph Stalin.
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:31:34 PM PST
by
infidel29
("It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."- T. Roosevelt)
To: death2tyrants
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:32:07 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Thebaddog
I curse the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt everytime I look at my Social Security card and the taxes they take out of my check.
He was socialist or a communist. He also helped get rid of gold and silver that backed the American dollar. Now the dollar isn't backed by anything and it won't be worth the paper it's printed on if our Congress can't learn any fiscal restraint.
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:41:40 PM PST
by
2nd_Amendment_Defender
("It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." -- Patrick Henry)
To: Thebaddog
IMHO, FDR was a demagogue of the first order. That he was, I've listened to some of his press conferences that you can download and he basically said whatever he felt like saying regardless of facts.
To: speedy
You're right about that. If it's one thing LBJ ought to be excoriated for is giving those darkies their voting rights. Really, Dude. Class Warrior? How can you possibly claim that raising blacks from disenfranchised second-class citizens to having a voice in the political process is being a Class Warrior? Sounds to me like you're just upset because you miss the good ol' days when the white man ruled everything. Or did I miss your point?
To: death2tyrants
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:24:23 PM PST
by
Jibaholic
(The facts of life are conservative - Margaret Thatcher)
To: whatshisname
How can you possibly claim that raising blacks from disenfranchised second-class citizens to having a voice in the political process is being a Class Warrior? This is probably a troll, but go do your homework on effect of AFDC (aka "welfare") on the effect of out-of-wedlock childbirths. Then go do some homework on the effect of out-of-wedlock childbirths on poverty rates. Great Society has been a trajic failure, none more so than for blacks. But he was still better than FDR.
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:27:14 PM PST
by
Jibaholic
(The facts of life are conservative - Margaret Thatcher)
To: death2tyrants
It seems like everyone is agreed that FDR was a scumbag.
Now Bush is saying things similar to FDR.
FDR used WWII to create a command economy which rescued him from the Depression and made homogenizing and bureaucratizing our society much easier.
What is Bush doing with his continuing Imperial exploits?
To: speedy
"At Harvard, Roosevelt's most vivid moment involved a brief encounter with the poor. Hurrying to South Station in Boston for a train to New York and a social weekend there, he carried his heavy suitcase aboard a streetcar. A wheel of the streetcar broke a few blocks from the station, so Roosevelt jumped out and started running, only to crash his suitcase into a small Italian boy. The child's mother leaned out of a tenement window and started yelling, so Roosevelt took from his pocket a new dollar bill and waved it in front of the boy; money, in Roosevelt's experience, always garnered a respectful response."
Franklin D. Roosevelt: How his New Deal undermined charity
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:37:45 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: SE Mom
Your welcome. :-) I'm glad someone got the indended point. The rest appear to believe, for some reason, that this post was an unconditional praise of FDR's domestic policies,lol.
To: Jibaholic
"Worst. President. Ever."
I'll call you on that and raise you a Jimmy Carter.
To: death2tyrants
The rest appear to believe, for some reason, that this post was an unconditional praise of FDR's domestic policies,lol.I think at least some of it is presented to provide contrast to demonstrate the man's absolute lack of veracity.
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:49:15 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: death2tyrants
I'll call you on that and raise you a Jimmy Carter.I'll take some of that, and put the cumulative damage of the New Deal and systematic abuse of the Commerce Clause up against anything Carter was able to screw up any day.
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:51:50 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: death2tyrants
Carter got the marginal tax rate raised to 70%.
FDR got the marginal tax rate raised to 94%.
But that is the least of it. Add in the massive expansion of the scope of the federal government, the creation of entitlements such as social security that still haunt us 70 years later, adding 6 new justices to the supreme court which ushered in today's era of judicial tyranny, and it is not even close. Jimmy Carter is pea shooter, FDR is a nuke.
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posted on
03/24/2005 7:54:38 PM PST
by
Jibaholic
(The facts of life are conservative - Margaret Thatcher)
To: All
And don't forget the Tehran Conference at the end of WW2, Roosevelt, his pal Stalin, and Churchill.
Churchill was opposed to giving Stalin what he wanted. Roosevelt and Stalin carved up Europe. Roosevelt was an accomplis in a horrendous crime against the peoples of Eastern Europe, condemning to Communist slavery for 40 years.
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